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June 30, 2018
Some of the web related news from China this week.
- With a total number of 400 million active users as of December 2017, WeChat Mini-Programs is estimated to reach 500 million active users in Q1 2018. Being a critical part of Tencent’s WeChat ecosystem, Mini-Programs seem to be more and more promising in the past year with the development of e-commerce and gaming applications.
- The total retail sales of consumer goods in China reached US$1,859.6 bn so far this year (Jan-Apr), up by 9.7% year-on-year. Online retail sales of goods and services were US$403.74 bn, with an increase of 32.4% year-on-year.
- The cross-border e-commerce retail import market in China is expected to see US$79.9 billion in transactions in 2018 with an increase of over 25% YoY and reach close to US$100 bn in 2019. This market is led by Tmall Global (27.6%), NetEase Kaola (20.5%), JD Worldwide (13.8%), Vipshop (9.8%), and Amazon Global (9.1%) as of end 2017.
- China’s shared accommodation market generated a total transaction of US$2.27 bn in 2017, up 70.6% from a year earlier, according to State Information Center of China. Chinese millennials were the main user group of shared accommodation platform. Around 70% of them had received undergraduate or further education.
Motoko Hunt
Since Motoko established AJPR in 1998, she has been working with some of the world's well-known corporations, helping them to enter Japanese market using the Internet. She is a frequent speaker at the digital marketing conferences around the world.
Her articles are published at several online media sites including Search Engine Journal, ClickZ, and MultilingualSearch. She received the Best Consultant Award from the US Search Awards in 2014.